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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-17
SUMNER AxUsEmENrs AT MOTHERHOOD.

HOTEL METH RwOOD Motherhood, n j., July 16.
This beautiful summer resort, known to and remem-
bered most pleasantly by many Of New forks pleas
ure seekers, has begun this with an uncsual
degree of prosperity. Nearly all the cotagers on the
Heights have arrived, and many gay equioages are
again to be seen along the shaded drives among the
hills Lite at tho hotel is bright and gay as usual
Frank f. Miller, the proprietor, will 90 pea.-
antly remembered by the frequentsrs OF the Hotel
KaatersGl where he was station last summer, and
also BY the patrons of the Grand Hotel New-York
There are hops every Saturday evening. and rides
over the surrounding are gwen the children
several times during the week Luncheon parties
have been popular, and arrangements are being per-
fected several largo entertainments to be given
The cottagers take part in all that goes on at
the hotel.
Among the people now here are Count sgob:l, OF
Italy; Count Mzrazzi OF the Italian Consulate New.
York Mr. aud Mrs. j. w. CondIt, W. j. Roome and
family II. B. Herbert, Mayor and Mrs. Thomas q.
Cullen, and the Misses Cullen, Mr.. and Mrs. a. E
Benary Mr. aud MIS-. +. A. Dana William Noddell,
NJ. and Mrs. o. b. Br:dgeman, Mr. and Mrs: 5. T.
Tobey. II. ID. Brewster and family, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
w. Williams, Mr.. aud Mrs. Isaac Lewis f. ID. Weston
snd family DR.. and Mrs. A. H. Goelet Mr. and Mrs.
X. T. Howard, Mrs. N. A. Roome, Miss Roome. A. I.
j. Rice and family, Herbert w. Bowen. William b.
Post, Mr.. and Mrs. George z. Wood, Colonel and Mrs
Fred. Martin, Fred Martin. IT,, H. w. Martin. II. Q:
Swain and family, Fred. Coffin and family, Mr. and
Mrs. j. c. Spencer Fl. E. Eaton and the Misses Eaton
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how TO ENJOY ALL THD NOBLE SPORTS With SAFETY,
500 OCTAVE PAGES. $50 ILLUSTRATIONS.
Price, 80 90 a Copy To Subscribers OF THE TRIBUNE
81 50 q Copy.

The open-air at its height Every bay
lake poued with sail boats and the beaches crowd
with bahers Streams and lakes open the fishermen
The woods the hunter Lawns and fields thronged
ball players ace and athletes and the country roads alive
with hosemen AM cyclers
While every openair sport is perfectly % pursued according to
rule the daily full of OF accidents life and
limb drownng ovuns boats ETC., etc. ALT h accidents would
avoided pleasure seekers would follow the sensible laid down
for their guidance in The TRIBUNE Book of OpenAr Sports
This book has received the general commentator of the and
of horsemen, yachting men, and athletes generally
Pemneny the book of all books of this sort for the ceaess OF
its explanatory and the engaging which it talks to
the reader imparting to him enthusiastic interest"
More than forty all experts their respective subjects have
contributed the pages of this valuable and interesting Book One
chapter devoted of accidents nakebte
drowning
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anEsrs Ar SoFRooy LAKE,

SOUTH ecHRooN. N. Y. July l6-Among guests at the
Taylor House, Lake View Point arc the Hon. John NJ.
Francis Troy, n r; william II. Keltner and wife, New
ark. MI. w. Il. Monsi. Nsw.York George T. Psnfeld.
Mount Vernon, N. Y; A. L. DaCosta, Jamaica. W. l.;
John Weber and son. Nsw-York; j. L. Everitts Miss NJ
L. Eventts. Brooklyn; Charles r. H. Wilson and wife,
lglss Caldwell Troy N. y; Mr.. and Mrs william Cum
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unenam, Aips.y n. III Mr. end Nrs. George wilson'
brcckiyn. 4 T., NJ. and Mrs. Max t:vi.on Mr. So A.
CLARK. W Clark EewYork: g. Oudeskirk sna va, VA
IT, and child Gri1sd Rowe, Miss G. Rowe. New Gorx;
Mrs.. NJ =. Tepnsy. BROOKLYN. Y; MS r; . Uss.o
and children Honolulu, II. /; Mrs. Charles L. otfsus'
mother and children. Eew-York.
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The editor Of "The Carson Lariat' remarks In
striking editorial paragraph IF Tol Bunker DOM
keep his SOW and shoats from under our oficc he f
going to lose some pork In the midst Of profound
specuatons European affairs and the probable here.
after of the heather, how refreshing Is such
breezy commonplace home-lke editorial utteranos
as this.-(Bmlington Free Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-17
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK OF SPORTS.

L-wHY WE WANT TO BE STRONG.
n-ARcHERY. OLD AND NEW.
IIL-HoRsEMANsHIP. WITH CRoss-CoUNTRY HUNTING
Iy.-BAsEBALI. LAWN TENNIS FOOTBALL, RACQUET,
CRICKET, la CROSSE
v.-FIsHIso.
vL-TRAPPN0.
vH-AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
VIIL-YAcHrISa AND YACHT BurLDINA
IX.-SwMMINa.
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X-RowINo AND CANOEING. wIrH RULES ~
BUILDING.
xL-GYMNAsTIcs, WITH WALKING, RUNNING. JuSr~
ING. PUTTING THE SHOT. TUG OF wAa. ma
XIL-CAMPING OuL
xIIL-sHor GUN AND RIFLE
xIv.-CRoouET.
XV.-CrCIIH0.
xvI.-sxArxo ICE YACHTING. ToBooeAMs&
XViL-UsnYUL FACTS.
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realize q small mite in the profits Of the stuff.
Give the boot-black the same right that Is
granted to the more pretentious and moral f3)
men. that he may double his business. and thus
be enabled to retire to private life at an early
age 1t short, make it free. and not make a stain
too great to be erased from Americas fair
name by spurious law and mockery at it's
enforcement. A few paltry dollars in return
for license to sell the accursed beverage be-
hind screen is as nothing compared to the dew
iltry growing out of this law which is only law
in name, and in reality q blank. Are saloon
keepers alone responsible for this state of af-
fairs2 We answer. "No.' As general thing,
the man who engages in liquor selling is void of
true principls for doing right and the law to
him is compulsory, and no does not obey it from
sense Of duty but only submits TO 1t when
compelled to do so by rigid enforcement OF the
law. And when these mon find that they must
comply with the laws requirements or submit
to its punishment. as prescribed. they become
law-abiding citizens, but never so long as the
law. fitted up and framed in . manner to suit
their especial case is blank letter so far its
enforcement 10 concerned. Let the law makers
see to it that their work is not in vain. or else
stop that branch Of business and go into some
thing they have the grit to carry through.
CRAwFoRDsvILLE July 8.
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THE AFRo.AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Editor Fortune Tells some of It's Objects and
How 1t Came To he Started.


New York Sun.
Editor #. Thomas Fortune. Of the New York
Freeman, talked to o Sun reporter yesterday
about the proposed Afro.American League whose
formation editor Fortune is urging in his news
paper.
81 first proposed the idea of national leaguing
together of coored people," said Mr. Fortune.
at the close of an editorial which published
five weeks ago upon the lynching Of four colored
men at York, S. G. asked if the colored people
of the whole country couldn't band themselves
better the demoralized condition OF our race
in the South well as to secure some
of the civil rights which are denied US in the
North. The idea was taken up and advocated
by all the leading newspapers edited by col
ored men in the land, and received the indorse-
ment of our leading colored citizens. had no
when / wrote the editorial, and was somewhat
surprised at the sagerness with which the sug
gestion was acted upon.
"Our plans are not matured yet. What
trying to do now is TO get our people organized
upon the general basis Of belief in movement
to secure our rights We propose to form
ward and county aud State leagues first Then
we shall hold a national convention and settle
the exact purposes and policy Of our order in
constitution and bylaws. In general way.
viii doubtless aim at the creation by asie
taton of q public opinion favorable to the
rights of the colored man, and at the collection
and maintenance of fund for the prosecution
of those who violate the laws which have been
enacted in our behalf. The league will mingle
in politics, of course 1t will try to get the body
of colored men assume independent posi-
ton in politics. Then, and not till then, will
we DE better off, Our proceedings will be secret,
of course We don't fear that this formation Of
the race into separate political organization
draw upon it any greater social ostracism than
it suffers now.
Tho work of preliminary organization is
going on sDlendidly We have a large organiza-
ton 10 Virginia, and understand that tho first
steps toward State organization in Connections
were taken yesterday in Hartford by the coai-
ton of the negro societies there. Undoubtedly
our negro societies will form the basis of the
present league You can't begin to know how
ready our people are for this movement. All
our organization wants for it's success il that it
should once get fairly started"
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A WESTERN ROMANCE.

| Several Brief Chapters In the Career of Mr..
A. c. Smith.
| San Francisco Chronicle.
"Who that in your box the other night,
| Mollie~ asked q beautiful blonde being, framed
by nature to support the struggling milliners at
the expense of the head of the family first and
some other man after, to brunette being OF the
s.Ob, that was Mr. Smith, of New York. He's
awfully handsome. isn't be. Josief"
'Hes just splendid"
He's Of good family, too"
Introduce me, won't your
.'Oh. he's poor"
Poor thing!"
"Ill tell you what we'll do. I'll keep him for
the Santa Cruz trip and you can have him for
the springs
Chapter II-Exsract from a letter from Au-
gustus Caesar Smith. San Francisco, to his sister
in New YORK:
"You will be pleased. my dearest els, to know
that am progressing finely in California.
have just met q most charming young lady,
Miss Molie Blank, whose father has devoted
many years most successfully to doarculture.
She is much struck with me- and it seems to be
quite genuine. She has invited me SO strongly
to go to Santa Cruz while her family is there
that trust TO consummate the matrimonial
speak now to be- accepted. Congratulate me!
Chapter III-"How was he, Molliel"
'.Who"
"Smith."
''Smi.h2 What Smith,"
''Smith OF New York"
"Oh. he was splendid. The first two weeks
we nau an elegant tlne
''Well. you remem Der your promise2"
What about2"
ITO give him to me"
Certainly. You can have him. He's all
right; very pleasant and agreeable, until he pro-
poses to marry you. Then he's good. Look
out for him. He made eight holes in the sand
with his knees at Santa Cruz imploring me to
become Mrs Smith"
Chapter Iv-Extract from letter from A. C.
Smith to his sister:
"You will be panied to learn that found the
Mollie Blank told you about little fool I
couldn't stand her after two weeks acquaint-
ance. You would not have liked her, know.
have become smitten with true and noble
little woman, Miss Josie - who is in every
respect the anithesis of that coquette. She will
make a lovely little wfe-and she is quite as
wealthy. l am happy this time, for 1 know
she loves me-"
Chapter V-Brief note from A. G. Smith to
his sister
INV Dearest Sister-Strike father for $3.50
for mo to get homo with. Your affectionate
brother, GUS"
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General Sherman Ratified.

Long Branch Letter.
The always perturbed moment in q mans
life is when he takes pen in hand and registers
his name in q summer hotel He knows that
fugitive inspection of him is going on,
that he will scarcely be led away to his room
before his autograph will be scrutinzed. and
that the idle talk of the lounRers will at once
be turned upon him. The most travelled of men,
who would scrawl his name carelessly enough
in a city hotel book, will hump himself arduously
at Long Branch counter, twist his legs like the
strands OF n rope aud accomplish worse chirog-
raphy than he deemed himself capable of. 1t is
one man in 10. 900 who can arrive at q fashion
able hotel in grace and dignity. The women do
il placidly, and wife will drop calmly into a
seat with all the lazy lapguor OF week old
guest while the husband hustles around in
Hurried agitation about the initiatory ceremonies.
The brothers Sherman. ex-Generai and OK Gov
ernor. came down here from New York tns
other day The General registered for both. and
II there had been q cannon masked behind the
counter he couldn't have more palpaby shown g
mastering Of courage for the ordeal, and when
IL was all over and the curious loungers went to
look at the distinguished names they that
the writer had blunderingly transferred the
middle ''T' from his own name to that of his
brother.
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MIR. Greeley. sense of Humor.

Joel Benton. in July Cosmopolitan.
Mr. Greeleys sense of humor was OF peculiar
sort, but it was allied to genius. So many an
ecdotes have been told of him in illustration OF
this, that one can hardly expect to produce any
who tried to joke with him TO his disadvantage
were generally worsted whether they did 1t
orally or through the press. One evening an as
sociate editor of the Tribune accosted him az he
came into his desk with some such question az
this: @sat
.Didn't you know, Mr. Greeley. that you made
dreadful blunder in one OF your statistical edi-
torias this morning "
mo- how was it ~ said Mr.. Greeley.
"Why, you said something about 'Heidsieck
and champagne Don't you know Heidsieck is
WELL" said Mr.. Greeley. quietly. II am the
only editor on this paper that could make that
mistake"
On another occasion a person who wished to
have little fun at the expense of his consisten-
Cyl said in a group where Mr.. Greeley was stand
ing:.
friends. We have drank a goad deal of brandy
and water together.
YES" said Mr.. Greeley, 'that is true enough
You drank the brandy and drank tho water"
Tobacco was his especial dislike; and, friend
of mine knowing this well, while handing around
box of cigars to q few who were present with
Mr.. Greeley. took especial pains to hand him
the box with great ostentation.
NO." said Mr. Greeley, 'T thank you. I
haven't got so low down as that yet only drink
and swear"
i must say, however, In contradiction OF q
charge that must have been much exaeger-
atei and purposely distorted flor it was favor
itei imputation against him with many) that !,
at least, never heard him use explosives that
could not be repeated in o refined circle.
He had as justifable occasions, though,
for objurgatory epiteths any
knew; if he had not sometimes
spoken vehemently he would have been truly
angelic. His handwriting, in spite of all
that was said of it was not the worst in the
world, but it was very nearly the -homeiiest. 1t
xuoo for IN lin IN noly af Put;f have
a somewhat uniform alphabet Almost all the
words like a certain one in Rufus Choate's pen
manship, looked like .'gridirons struck by light
ming" But when you once discovered the key
to this chirography it not very hard to
read. The stories about it, though, are more
numerous than the fables Of Esop.
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Aid for a Humane Society.

St. Louis POST D1spatch
There must be something very like tears in the
eyes of every one who reads such letters as the
following. 1t isn't the padded sentiment Of the
stage nor the professional feeling of the pulpit
1t is sympathy of the strongest kind for society
that speaks for those that cannot epeak for
themselves. Such contributions are worth q
great deal to the Humane Society and are APP
preciated by its promoters far more than the
amount Of the contribution suggests!
To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch:
Will you please give the Humane Society 20
cents I send to you'll / ara very glad to do a
will get up a little earlier and walk to my work.
I was with my papa in the winter when l saw
Mr. Holmes arrest man for abusing a horse
Papa said Mr. Holmes is q good man; and when
he could spare some money he would give it to
the society. Poor papa is now in Heaven
am eight years old to-day and work in station
cry store. ANNA.
july Ia. 1887,
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THE AMERICAS DOLLAR.

History of the Coin from the beginning. In
1875, to the Present.
T5e Financer.
Our word dollar dates back to 1855. when q
resolution was passed by Congress which pro-
vided that it should be the unit of money OF the
United States. Another resolution was passed
Aug. 8, 1885. providing that It should weigh
375 Ga grains of pure silver. The mint was es-
tablished in 1892 aud was then required to coin
silver dollars containing 37l2 grains OF pure
der Hamilton. No dollars we're coined until
1894, and then irregularly. They are
now worth 500 each. In 1874 the coin
age of regular dollars began. Our
milled dollar, coin very popular wherever the
Spaniards travelled. The coin was called
''piastre," meaning fiat piece OF metal; it IS
synonymous with plaster. It is supposed that
the Spanlards took the German 'thaler" and
called it by the name of plaster" The word
dollar is entered in Baey's English dictionary
of HAS, and was used repeatedly by Shakespeare
at the beginning of the seventeenth century,
especially in Macbeth" H., 2. 81: Till she dis,
bursed -. 49,. $4,000 to our s general use :"
(See also the Tempest" IL, l. IL )The question
where Shakespeare found the word dollar is an
swered by the fact that theHanseatc towns main
tanned great establishment called the Steel Yard
in London. The Steel Yard merchants were
mostly North Germans, who would call the Ger
man thaler as 1t was spelt, 'dah-ler." The same
merchants occasioned the word sterling. an ao-
breviation of the word 'esterling." AS the Han
seattle trade was particularly brisk on the Baltic
and in Russia, the standard coins of the Hanse
merchants were called esterings, and sterling
came to mean something genuine and desirable.
The word dollar is the English for thaler. the
first Of which coined about 14S6, and cor
responds quite closely to our present American
silver dollars. The word thaler means coming
from dale or valley" the first dollar having
been coined in a Bohemian valley called Foach-
imsthal 1t was under Charles V. the Emperor
of Germany, King OF Spain and Lord OF Spanish
America that the German thaler became the
coin Of the world
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SOUVENIRS OF BOSTON CULTURE.
Hub Photographer Arrested for Printinl
and Selling Indecent Photographs.

A Hub photographer Arrested for Printing
and Selling Indecent Photographs.
Boston Special.
Edward Gerbe a well-known photographer Of
South Boston, appeared in court yesterday to
answer to the charge of printing and selling in
decent photographs. The against Gerbe is
much the same as the one of Elmer Chickering,
the fashionable photographer, against whom
complaints are pending for taking the portraits
OF several of Boston's best-known society bellies
in exceedingly decollete attire. In Wow OF the
fact that the present case 10 considerably in oved
in various directions, Gerbe held in
5000 bonds, and the case will be continued to
next Monday. The interesting history ct pho
rographer Chckering aud his fifty or more pa
irons from the aristocratlc families from the
Back Bay has been in q large measure dupli-
Gated in the of Gerbe. The same craze
that bewitched the young women Of Common
wealth avenue also led the less al istocratic
maidens Of the Peninsula por ton Of the Hub to
seek Gerbe's studio in scarcely more elaborate
costumes than that with which nature endowed
them. Although Mr.. Gerbe's patrons were of
lower caste. their ambitions were none the less
strong, aud they emulated not only the attractive
poses OF many well-known pictures of the Paris
Salon. but were also photographed as nymphs,
Roddesses and mermaids. The young women,
all of whom were familiar with the statuary Of
the art museum, attitudinized as Greek god
desses, and the outline Of limb, figure and feat
ure OF photographer Gerbe's productions demon
strated that the Boston girl to-day does not fall
far below the standard OF the Greek ideal.
Like their sisters on Comnonwealsh avenue.
the young women of South Boston declare that
they have done nothing wrong. To the truly
artistic mind, the nude In nature cannot be
pulsive or immodest While they did not in
tend to have their photographs widely circulated
they see nothing Objectionable in presenting to
their intimate friends and admirers accurate
licensees of themselves as nature made them.
As their defense, they say that to the pure all
things are pure. and it Is only the depraved i'm
imagination of the police authorities that dis
coveres anything wrong In their doiugs After
the arrest of Gerbe, Thursday night, a search
Was made of his studio. In his private Office
were found fifteen different pictures of indis-
Greet young women. and on the roof exposed for
yesterdays sun were u dozen negatives OF like
character. Few Of tho photographs exhibited
any attire at ali, and such were partially clad
were so draped as TO add artistict effect the
natural charms displayed. Thcse interesting
souvenirs of Boston culture were gathered in by
the police and will be produced As evidence At tho
trial
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